I have a car with stock speakers and an added on pioneer cd player and subs. One day i was driving and all the speakers in my car stopped working. The subs work fine and the radio still plays cds and sends audio to the subs. The speakers would cut in and back out when i went over a bump or if the sub woofers were on loud enough to vibrate the car. Now they stopped doing that. They're not blown because they sounded fine when they would come back in. Im assuming theres a loose connection or a short in a wire but when i pulled the cd player out and jiggled all the wires it didnt help. Any ideas on what to look for or where to start? Any help would be much appreciated.
2007-06-20 10:12:00 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Audio
I agree with KB. I've had to troubleshoot this exact problem many times, and it almost always comes down to a grounded speaker wire.
Another possibility is that your vehicle has a factory amplifier that has failed.
2007-06-20 11:37:10 · answer #1 · answered by KaeZoo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, it very well could be a short but there could be a few other things as well. 1st, like the others said-- use Alpine keys and remove the radio. If you don't have these keys then you can go to Best Buy, Circuit City or somewhere and ask them if they have a set of Alpine removal keys. if the connections are fine behind the radio, one of the speakers might be grounding out in the car. Are the speakers aftermarket or are they still factory? When I say "grounding out", one of the speakers in the door might have the terminals touching metal, or the positive and negative might be making contact at some point causing the whole system to go out. Another thing it might be is a factory amp. IF there is a factory amp in the Porshe that is intergrated then it might very well be going bad... If this is the problem, the factory amp (if there is one) needs to be bypassed... Hope that helps you out a little...
2016-05-21 01:40:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pull your cd player back out and using a multimeter measure between each speaker wire and ground. they should all read open (no continuity). If any of the speaker leads are shorted to ground it will shut all the speakers off. That way you also know which speaker to start looking at.
Also measure the impedance of each pair of speaker wires, if any pair reads less than 2ohms chances are its a bad speaker shutting them all down.
2007-06-20 10:25:17 · answer #3 · answered by kb 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it could be the amp inside the cd player. try your old deck and see if the work. this will show you that it is no the wiring to the speakers.
2007-06-20 10:25:34 · answer #4 · answered by csmithballsout 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i agree with csmithballsout
Take it to a pro, if you're over your head though, better to spend an extra 50 bucks and get sound, compaired to the opposite.
2007-06-20 10:30:43 · answer #5 · answered by jmdavis333 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
bazooker stop working how to fix it
2015-12-23 15:40:59 · answer #6 · answered by Cassie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋